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crease and hello to everyone out there very glad to have you with us again i am sundra to know bill coming to you from kampala in uganda today will be looking out innovative bubble houses in nigeria and plenty of other interesting stories. would hear how the monks this spring he's helping to harm us in botswana particular lifestyle. we'll also see how some african land owners can get a tax break by protecting the environment. and find out why ugandan farmers but you can detect heat. we thought of a show in the democratic republic of congo a country often modern conflict as a result of a long time little attention is paid to the environment but that is starting to change we went to the begun national park where people are now devoting time and effort to protecting the nature of it not only is that good for the tropical forest

bot the local people and the way to which includes. the sis family of gorillas lives in the tropical sewers. from the nearby. some other arguments we are now in kill goosy be a good national park zoo and right now we're in the presence of miss you and me miss you pointed me and i mean members of this family you know. we think so who says he is a national park is a national conservation area so this. democratic republic of congo of the grows all east in the land gorillas have been a major tourist attraction for decades the main source of income for the park obvious mission fees foreign visitors pay $402.00 was still is each because of the

pandemic there's no business right now but the rangers still go out on patrol they want to keep track of several the us troops and usually know where to find them even though the park is heaved it covers 6000 square kilometers closer g.p.s. device for each family of gorillas. one window into the forest to check on them we also collect data and if we find chimpanzee tracks we record back to when you want them see if we find evidence of illegal activities such as travel shall we just manto them and over the coordinates or the chronic or the bona fide daises be used for scientific research the number of lowland gorillas here has declined by hoffa over the past 3 decades just a few 1000 research as estimates of the ranges wealth with permits colleges of boston bus a bossy he had its problems experts is a nonprofit study because it's

a public research and conservation he says poaches and their traps are a continuing threats. this gorilla is lucky to be alive. here we see the silverback move when he was 4 years old he was caught in a snare and unfortunately he lost his right hand but despite that hearing news and he's with his family. but the range is not only patrol of the park to collect data they're also on the lookout for poachers and that's why there aren't. we have security issues in some parts of the park there are a poachers out there every day and the rangers try to track them down people from the surrounding communities also sometimes damage the park they cut down trees or

bamboo. the park is a unesco world heritage site but this part of eastern d.r.s. sea is densely populated and there's no buffer zone between the park and the nearby villages people live in the needed facility some work and see plantations all in the park but most small holder farmers. promise experts his not only seeks would show conservation of the gorillas but also to improve the livelihood of local communities. he has also launched a project to replant areas of forests that have been cleared and legally just invested says working closely with local people is very important he hopes they will come to care for the environment as much as they respect the good. will go to go the plan is just an appealing for some time now i'm going to cry has been seen much more often at the edge of the park and feel. what pleases us as scientists and

conservationists is that the community's respect. nobody has been throwing stones at him or threatening him even though we often see him passing from their fields. or shot for around 100 villages it's a basic reforestation projects a project that will help preserve the forest for the good of the gorillas and. let us now come from preserving way of life and forests to creating good sustainable housing up because a big city is a crowded. overcrowded you know witness that we are doing debate when we need to on my jury an entropy i don't know who builds houses for material found that in abundance. love.

nigeria's population is rapidly growing and with the need for affordable housing. ibrahim something soon came up with the idea. he constructs houses and car doona made entirely of bamboo which grows naturally in the area. may not out of my skull just like this lasts longer than a house built with ordinary wood and bamboo is better when it comes to withstand like floods and garage and you and your family can live in a house like this for a very long time without having to worry that it might collapse and then toss away domini. which is actually a wood the grass is strong rights and environmentally friendly it grows incredibly quickly without having to be replanted after harvest. it's much cheaper than most other construction materials but it should be treated or leeched to eliminate it susceptibility to insect attacks and weather where not all bamboo varieties have

the same quality but if a suitable variety is used for him some lisa says a sizeable house can be built in less than 20 days. then how about you if you're also doing your bit tell us about it visit our website or send us a tweet. ashtray doing your bit. we share your stories. and no $21.00 of the wall of embarrassment to kabul mochas that every year around $25000000.00 tonnes of wheat ends up in ocean let's walk over every single minute of all plastic all sumption continues to live on the present right over discarding so truckloads of food a minute within the next. sonia's and 4 percent by $20.00 to $30.00 why is this happening one reason is that only

a small proportion of plastic waste is recycled another is that around half of all plastic goes to product that i use just once and then thrown away now some young german activists are cleaning up local rivers and working with scientist to calculate i'll watch a plastic and stop in to see. an idyllic location on the who're river in western germany but take a closer look and it's not as beautiful. the time. kevin there were and their classmates have come to do some fishing but not the usual kind it's trash their fishing for those lists are everywhere they look and there's plenty of plastic. oh quite a few glass bottles to. the students attend a local high school and are taking part in an initiative called plastic pirates it's a research project where young students get to do the work of real scientists. they

take water samples and measure count and record the pieces of trash they recovered from the rivers and river that. scientists in kew use the data to generate a garbage map of german rivers and calculate how much trash ends up in the sea. the teachers are happy to do their part to inspire the budding scientists. out there. it's something i care about myself it always bothers me when i see people leaving rubbish behind especially when they have small children with them and are supposed to be setting an example. the work of the plastic pirates shows that on average one piece of trash can be found for every 2 square metres of riverbank in germany. france also has a project aimed at tracking down the trash it's called plastic origins and goes a step further using artificial intelligence and an app we want to move. as

much as brought us and citizens as we can to go on the reverse or you can create a product. or walking around that we don't dance and using those data using the video footage that they are going to take over the river banks we will be able to analyze as we do. little items and uses data to my previous plastic pollution the aim of plastic origins is to get stricter legislation introduced on plastic waste and regulatory limits with the amount of plastic in european rivers their garbage map is intended to identify especially polluted areas we know that most of the pollution we found the ocean is transported by rigorous. right now we don't know which groups are the most polluted. but the app can track micro plastics in germany and don't fall kilos of micro

plastics per person per year end up in the environment the main sources particles from vehicle tires industrial waste and household garbage it's difficult for waste water treatment plants to filter out the tiny particles but a munich startup called eco faria is showing how it can be done using a simple but effective method this is how it works the waste water is pumped into the filter a powerful voice x. is generated in the pipe pushing the water containing most of the micro plastics to the top of the company says 95 percent of micro plastics from municipalities and industry could be filtered out in this way. the young plastic pirates agree that more needs to be done to combat plastic pollution after just 2 hours in this idyllic location they found more trash than they can even carry. now we had to solve africa to find out how our tax break helps to promote conservation the

country's fables for its wide life and vast areas of almost all to lend and then go there come up with a way to encourage people to set up nature reserves on the property. 88 percent of land in south africa is not suitable for agriculture it's too rugged too dry and too one even. but everywhere you look you see life in abundance the country boasts rich biodiversity but how best to preserve it in south africa environmental protection is chronically under financed. that's where candace stevens comes in she's a tech specialist at the n.-g. o. wilderness foundation africa she wants to encourage landowners to turn their holdings into nature reserves the government offers

a tax incentive to do so. what you're doing here is looking off to south africa's natural wealth in the public good and so there's this unique tax incentive to benefit that died of this city this man has already converted his land into a protected area he can write off the cost of the purchase over 25 year period photographer course fundal and purchased the land 5 years ago and has taken countless pictures of the area since then it rarely rains here but when it does the landscape is transformed into a pageant of color. another special feature about this area of land is that it could act as a corridor for wild animals since it's located between 2 different protected areas . we standing here on about in the on the northern border of it.

to the west and you thought self stretching down the macro national park and then to the north east look up. and you can see the proposed corridor linking the 2 protected. the crew region of south africa is home to more than $5000.00 species of plants and some 40 percent of them can only be found here. once upon a time this area was farmland due to global warming and the rainfall diminished quite a bit and it just became impossible for these people to to make a living with cattle and agriculture and eventually they had to sell and that's why we bought in the fall for conservation. with climate change threatening biodiversity candace stephens has not found it difficult to persuade other

landowners to follow suit. doesn't have signed up to the scheme her 1st experience of implementing the program was in the kwazulu-natal province in order to protect the land locals introduced a herd of cattle. grain. the animals serve an important function keeping the grass short helps prevent wildfires in the dry season but it's just the start will slowly introduce game starting with the plains game which will be spring book. and those type of animals and then once they are established slowly the cattle will be removed the animals will be free to run on the whole nature reserve. the tax rebates that kandor stevens has been promoting. have gone some way towards

addressing the shortage of funding for environmental protection in south africa. and in the future she's hopeful of further progress in this development. it's an old problem farmers especially here in africa are all too familiar with predictors attack in their life stock in botswana conservation and trains dogs to guard farm animals they can be very good at it and that means farmers have less reason to hunt and kill more roading wildlife so a danger to species such as cheetah are also protected it looks like a win win situation. farmers in the west and was fun to have to be vigilant and cheetah could be lurking somewhere in the grass and for young families like news around 2 percent of their livestock to predators. own security fencing the figure is even higher.

than was i was around 15. of course. 10 to one term if you know the dealer but it can kill serving it on one. just kill. to protect of their lives talk a many good heart is short of poison predators but now some of them have started keeping dogs with their hearts to keep the big cast away. and their families give a local mixed breed dog which is well suited to the hash environment. close to guarding dog program is supported by the environmental going is asian cheetah conservation fish mana at a rural failing facility pony want to say he looks after parties and raises them to

become part of the hot dogs then stay with the livestock day and night to protect them against threats. around. 60 to 60 dogs so far in this area. we intend to. lose more dogs and turn to old. foremost because of their livelihoods and in their hands on the other hand to do more she tells him was 13 or 4 trained dogs protect a flock the prisons and backing alone is often enough to keep predators at bay. initiative like this part of a leisure strategy to keep livestock from being harmed by wild animals the conservation organization also conducts research micheline crile is the coordinator

she uses come into traps to learn more about cheaters and develop solutions for human when they have conflict. the greatest numbers of cheaters can be found in soudan spots of africa these skilled predators can reach speeds of 100 kilometers per hour making them the fastest land animals in the world. but these days there are natural range is severely reduced the destruction of the habitat targeted killings by farmers and the hunt for their fire has brought them to the brink of extinction predators suggested their top of the ecosystem in a cave natural prey of control and prey of course also gives us education under control. since the guiding building programme was launched in 2015 many farmers have stalked killing cheaters for different moyo their program

has been a success thangs to his dogs he hasn't lost a single gorge in the last 5 years many species in africa still survive and coexist in then protected wildlife areas ensuring humans and animals can live side by side remains a challenge. things to conservation efforts research is estimated that today there are some 7000 streeters living in the wild and some of them all their lives to the dogs but watch over the floats in the kalahari. front but sought out to sound rose you've got it since farmers there have set up a sit back can you tell us more about that sandra. if i can prove it banks are an important resource for preserving the different strains and breeding new ones that are better suited to the changed conditions due to climate change we are going to pay a visit to a project run and stopped by

a woman. joy mugisha is explaining how to catch banana weevils. she's giving a training session to women farmers in western uganda. here she demonstrates another method put parts of a dead banana tree stump in front of the tree you're trying to protect and the weevils will be drawn to that instead. because it did destroy. the spring. so it was my organism. i was invited to. join has been trained by the organisation alliance biodiversity. the n.g.o.s supports food security projects with evidence based

research especially for crops like bananas and beans some traditional bean varieties can no longer grow here the farmers say it's because of climate change the ngo has helped them to set up their own cooperative and develop a seed bank which now has more than 60 varieties of bean in stock. from here they. usually farm he or she. has. to have he or she has. the national seed bank of uganda provided the initial investment of seeds scientists made them available to the ngo. the researchers have given the farmers improved seeds of being varieties. the cross-breeding to create these new strands

can take several years as scientists gloria tino explains so we did find. these maybe the. readers can access those materials and improve on them. or even so those traditional hold a lot of traits. that we need for. the national seed bank estimates that every year uganda is losing around 10 percent of its biodiversity in plants that are important for agriculture and attrition like beans peanuts and wild rice. so if we. get very year should we be kewl those crops. would have nothing because we want to be able to use vegemite to use the challenges

that you have in the production systems and your country to look after these resources is it is a country that is in trouble for the future for joining has in the meantime set up her own seed bank for 4 years she's been setting aside part of her harvest proceeds she's employed a number of women to help with the seed selection process she not only pays them but also passes on her beam growing knowledge they get the money from these communities. from these communities. as. the idea of starting up community seed banks is catching on a total of 8 cooperatives in uganda have now joined the initiative. that's all for though we hope you fall into these stories is barry if you do something to protect the environment would love to hear about it you can get in touch with us on our

social media channels on personal lives signing off from lagos nigeria. thank you chremes china's again for another edition of africa next trick for me sunday to nokia here in kampala uganda it is goodbye and take care. no. doubt. yes. thank.

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